ECoDAs – Environment and Community Development Association

• Environmental education
• Restoration of fragile ecosystems
• Conservation of at-risk flora and fauna species
• Strengthening communities’ livelihoods through income and economic development opportunities
• Promoting sustainable agriculture and forest regeneration through agroforestry/non-timber forest products domestication

Recognizing Cameroon’s rising biodiversity loss and climate crisis, ECoDAs was created on 22 May 2015 (World Biodiversity Day) and officially registered as a non-profit by Cameroon’s Ministry of Territorial Administration on 13 August 2018 (Registration N247/E.27/750/SAAJP). Its founders were motivated by widespread poverty, environmental degradation, ineffective development approaches and inadequate community involvement in protected area management. ECoDAs was created to build environmental knowledge, save at-risk species, restore threatened habitats and improve livelihoods around Cameroon’s protected areas, quickly becoming one of the country’s frontline indigenous conservation NGOs. Much of its work takes place in the Bakossi-Banyang-Mbo Landscape (Southwest Region) – comprising Bakossi National Park, Banyang-Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary, Mount Muanenguba Herpeto-Ornithological Sanctuary and Mount Kupe Integral Ecological Reserve – with early activities also focused on the Kom-Wum Forest Reserve and Kimbi-Fungom National Park in the Northwest Region.